The Electrochemistry Podcast

Episode 10: The Ambitious Undergrad Andre - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil look at a strange working electrode issue from Andre, who is an undergrad doing research in electrochemistry. As an undergraduate, Andre was working under the guidance of a 3rd year graduate student Martin, who's is tasked with off loading as much work to Andre as he could. An

Episode 9: Semiconductor electrochemistry with Dr. Alex Bredar - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil have a special guest, Dr. Alex Bredar. Alex Bredar talks with us about her experience about learning electrochemistry, choosing a graduate adviser, and how semiconductor electrochemistry works. We'll finish up the episode with a game of EChem Abstract Madl

Episode 8: Jackson's Hard Time Circuit Fitting - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss post-doc Jackson who is developing new materials for electrochemical sensors. Jackson uses DC techniques and AC techniques to characterize his materials. He got some very good experimental results, but when he started doing EIS circuit fitting he found that the ci

Episode 7: Regina's Potentiostat Problem - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss post-doc Regina who has actually been doing electrochemistry for a while. She did her Ph.D. in electrochemistry and her new PI was excited for her to join as a post-doc to help teach electrochemistry to the group. However, one day a grad student presented Regina with a

Episode 6: Jing's Glovebox Noise - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss grad student Jing who is a 2nd year graduate student preparing for her qualifying exam which is in 3 weeks. She is doing inorganic synthesis of a cobalt complex in a glovebox. Jing has some good results, but needs some cyclic voltammetry data. However, when she tried to perform

Episode 5: Connor's Unusual Electrode Contamination - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss grad student Connor who has spent a lot of time developing procedures for synthesizing and testing the electrocatalytic activity of his catalyst, and shared his techniques with a collaborator. However, there seems to be a large discrepancy between the electro

Episode 4: Starting an Electrochemistry Company with Dr. Ziad Bitar - In this episode, Alex and Neil interview the founder and owner of EquiLabrium, Dr. Ziad Bitar. We learn about how Ziad originally got into electrochemistry and what it's like getting a Ph.D. in electrochemistry in France. We then discuss his experience working in industry and how he built an electrochemistry comp

Episode 3: Marco and the Old Lab Notebook - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss grad student Marco who is great at organic and inorganic synthesis, but now needs to do some cyclic voltammetry experiment to test the electrocatalytic activity. Marco is new to electrochemistry and it's not in his usual wheel house of chemical techniques. Marco found

Episode 2: Priyanka's bad EIS data - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss grad student Priyanka's bad day in the lab trying to get EIS data, and get to the bottom of what mistakes she made. They also cover pizza toppings, shellfish dinners, and late 1990s blockbuster movies for some reason. Finally, they finish with a game of EChem Abstract MadLibs

Episode 1: Lisa's Glassy Carbon Electrode - In this episode of The Electrochemistry Podcast, Alex and Neil discuss grad student Lisa who is finished with her grad classes and is excited to do some electrochemistry research over the summer. However, after performing a routine cyclic voltammetry test on her glassy carbon electrode, the electrode was damaged and the voltammogram looks